 Crossgrade price will increase to $1,495 as soon as we sell-out! $995 Only While Supplies Last!!
Avid Media Composer 5.5 "Crossgrade" Bundles
for Apple Final Cut Editors are Still Available at Videoguys.com
Your choice Avid Media Composer 5.5 Crossgrade with either Matrox MXO2 Mini or Glyph GTO62E 4TB for just $1,495!!
Are you ready to upgrade your Mac? If you're a Final Cut Pro editor in need of a new editing program. or a former Avid editor who made the switch to Final Cut and w
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 Scott was just finishing up a three week edit using Avid Media Composer. He enjoys longer-form projects like this one as he always find himself learning something new about the non-linear editing tool that he's using for that extended period of time. While he's in and out of these editing tools nearly everyday (be it Avid, FCP or Premiere Pro) it’s a prolonged period in a single one of them that often revels something he never knew before. In this case it was some tips, tricks and tutorials abou
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 We begin the semester by cutting a complex dialog sequence, using ScriptSync to help assemble the 40+ camera angles that make up the scene. Because the students have so much to do technically in constructing the scene, they sometimes fail to see the forest for the trees on the first pass. That is, because they have so much material to sort through—and so many decisions to consider—they often tend to get caught up in building the scene, and forget to sit back and really watch.
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 While everyone has seen the complex animated 3D title sequences and lower thirds for popular sports shows, chances are that few outside the world of pro video are familiar with the software that is used to create them. One of the leading applications in this area is Red, from BorisFX.
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 Matrox® Video Products Group today announced the immediate availability of Thunderbolt™-enabled Matrox MXO2™ I/O devices as well as Thunderbolt adapters for existing customers. Developed by Intel® with collaboration from Apple®, Thunderbolt is a high-speed I/O technology running at 10 gigabits per second that brings together high-speed data transfer and high-definition (HD) display on to a single cable. Thunderbolt is currently available on all new Macs.
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 Syfy, formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel, is an American cable channel featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural, paranormal, and reality programming. Syfy is part of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast and General Electric.
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 As editors, we are often called on to fix problems created in production. We all know the "fix it in post" cliché. That can be harder that the director may realize, or easy to do than we want them to know. Either way, Media Composer includes some powerful tools that can help. One of my go-to favorites is the Paint effect. A real-time, built-in effect, it's really a Swiss Army knife of useful tools that has often saved the shot -- and my butt in the process.
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 I finally downloaded the FCP-X trial and explored the application for a full day. Prior to this, I used it briefly for two hours. But now, while spending all day trying to make something with it, I discovered that I disliked just about everything about it. Every minute I spent using it made it worse because it was backwards from the way I like to work. But I guess that is how it is designed…to be unlike any other NLE, and to do things very differently. But is the different way better? Not f
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 Gary Adcock gives his views of the current state of post production. In-depth discussion covering Final Cut Pro X and the shake-up which has resulted since its release; the surge of Adobe in the digital video scene; the strength of Avid Media Composer; and power of Smoke on the Mac. Gary is well known in the digital video scene, having spoken all over the world & consulted for clients at the highest levels,. He is the force behind Studio 37, a Chicago based Consultation Service for Film and HD P
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 Chris Marino from WideOpenCamera.com and I were wondering how I would get an edit to him for grading in AE out of Avid with out having to shell out $500 for the Automatic Duck plugin. We started exploring options and it turns out it's actually quite easy. The obvious route would be EDL but After Effects has no EDL import function. However, Premiere does. Once you use that to get your sequence in and you've relinked it just replace your sequence with an After Effects comp. I don't believe there's
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 On 9/20/11 Apple released their first update to FCPX 10.0.1. While it shows some progress, it doesn't address the main issues and reasons so many Pros have left Apple for Adobe and/or Avid. The comments below have been added to our Videoguys' Options for Final Cut Editors blog post, but I felt they were also worth sharing as a new blog post.
For me the most important thing in the update isn't actually included in 10.0.1 at all. Rather it is this very important information found at the bo
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 ATTENTION Apple Final Cut Editors:
This Is Your Last Chance to "Crossgrade" to Avid Media Composer 5.5 for only $995 Expires 9/30/11
Not getting what you need to succeed? Are you a former Avid user who switched? We want to help. If you've got Final Cut Pro, you've only got 10 days left to get Media Composer for just $995, which includes free online training, before the crossgrade price goes up to $1,495 on October 1st.
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 These are heady days for high-end nonlinear editing system providers. But, we may have recently lost one of the biggest players in the game.
Despite the fact that Apple's Final Cut Pro 7 software is being used by 54.6 percent of the professional editing community, according to a report by market research firm SCRI International, in June Apple released a completely rewritten version called Final Cut Pro X. Much to the surprise of many, despite that this new incarnation is completely 64-bit, so
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 Due to the tremendous response from the professional editing community for its current Final Cut Pro Crossgrade promotion, Avid® today announced that beginning October 1, 2011, it will offer a Final Cut Pro crossgrade price for qualified customers on an ongoing basis. The new crossgrade will allow Final Cut Pro users to purchase the industry’s leading professional editing solution, Media Composer®, for $1499 USD—making the benefits of fast, open, collaborative workflows more accessible than eve
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 Breaking news from the show floor this morning at IBC 2011: Due to the tremendous response for our current Final Cut Pro Crossgrade promotion, today we’re pleased to introduce that beginning October 1, 2011, we’ll be offering a Final Cut Pro crossgrade price for qualified customers on an ongoing basis. The new crossgrade will allow Final Cut Pro users to purchase Media Composer, for $1499 USD—making the benefits of fast, open, collaborative workflows more accessible than ever before to Mac OS na
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